The Emperor got me this morning.
My sisters SUV has developed a problem with the rear hatch yesterday. It won't lock, so it can swing open freely.
Since I work at the cars manufacturers dealership and the car was still under warranty, I told her I'd drive it in to get it fixed today since her local dealership won't be able to look at it for another week. She stayed the night at my place last night so I could drive the car to the dealership early this morning. She also brought my three nieces over to stay, including her two month old baby who's having problems at the moment and tends to get up a couple of times a night.
The Emperor has been eyeing me up for a while now, and saw a perfect opportunity of targetting me this morning due to my lack of sleep from the baby crying and trying organise the other two the previous night trying to get them to sleep.
"Hello there No 190346. No need to tie down the rear hatch to the car, your sister has said clearly that it doesn't swing open while she has driven it."
He failed to mention that she hasn't driven at motorway speeds yet. Driving this car to work this morning, I was sitting next to a truck waiting at my motorways traffic lights (It's part of this motorways "smart" traffic scheme, have traffic lights on the on-ramp to alleviate traffic jams on the motorway somehow. All it really does is keep the traffic waiting on the on-ramp for ages.)
This on-ramp has two lanes side by side on one side of the lights, and merges into a single lane on the other side of the traffic lights. Since I wanted to beat the truck , I put my foot down when the light went green. I suddenly heard a roaring wind sound as the hatch lifted up from the acceleration of the car. I couldn't slow down as I had a truck pushing up my rear end, so I had to drive along for a 100 metres or so before I could pull over and push the hatch down.
I'll probably see myself on Dash Cam Drivers Australia at the end of the month.